Combined writing-sheet and envelop.



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Z BEBE Humm V/n //6 .ARTHUR W. WRIGHT, OF TRINIDAD, AND P HIL H. KNOWLTON, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

COMB'NED WRITING-SHEET AND ENVELOP.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ARTHUR lV. VRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trinidad., in the county of Las Animas, State of Colorado, and PHIL H. lixowm'ox, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Combined Writing- Sheets and Envelops, of which the following is a specication.

V`Our invention relates to a combined writing sheet and envelop and its primary object 'resides in the provision of a sheet of writing paper which may be conveniently folded and sealed for its transmission by mail and which is provided the transference of the name and address of the addressee when written so as to vappear upon the outside of the folded article for the direction of the postal oflicials, onto the writing sheet at the head of the communication or other matter written or imprinted upon the inner surface thereof.

By the use of our invention the mistakes which often occur in copying the name and address from a statement or letter onto the envelop in which the same is to be inclosed, are effectively avoided, the time 'and labor involved in separately addressing the en velops and their inclosures, are eliminated and the cost of production islmaterially reduced -when compared with that required in providing the separate envelops and writing sheets at present in common use.

An embodiment'of our invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings in the various views of which like parts are similarly designated and in which, Figure l, represents a blank statementsheet formed in accordance with our invention, inthe flat or unfolded condition, Fig. 2, a similar view of the same with the sealing flap folded in the position it occupiesv while the name and address of the addressee and otherniatter are being written on the sheet, Fig. 3', a similar view of the sheet illustrating the first step employed in foldfor its transmission by mail, Fig. 4, a view of the article after the second step in the process of folding the same has been completed, Fig. 5, a face view of the combined writing sheet and n envelop in the folded and sealed condition, Fig. 6, a reverse view'of the same, Fig. 7, a face View peciiicaton of Letters Patent.

with means for l in Fig. '2, and the Fatented duif? 2S, i914.

Application led April'2, 1913. Serial No. 758,448.

of a modification of the form of our invention shown in Fig. l, in the unfolded condition, and Fig. 8, a similar view of still an= other modication in the construction of our invention.

Referring firstto Figs. l to 6 of the drawings, the reference numeral Q designates the writing sheet which in the illustration, has been ruled for use as a statement of an account, and which by scored, weakened or otherwise established folding lines 3, is divided into a central body-section i and tivo wing-sections 5. The numeral 6 designates the sealing flap of the article which is formed at the upper edge of the sheet 2 lupon which it may be folded along a line 7 coincident with the said edge. The flap G whose side edges extend in alinement with the abo-vementioned folding lines 3, is provided at its outer corners with laterally projecting ears 8, the inner surfaces of which are coated with an adhesivesubstance as indicated by broken line shading as at 9, for the purpose of `sealing the letter or statement as will hereinafter be more fully described. The adhesive subst-ance is furthermore applied on the inner surface of the flap alongits outer edge as shown by similar shading at 10 and another portion of the same surface is coated as at l2 with al carbon solution or other preparation suitable to produce a transfer of matter written or imprinted on the outside of the flap, upon the surface upon vwhich the same isfolded.

In using our improved writing sheet, the sealing flap is first of all folded `upon the sheet Q- along the line 7 after which the name and address of the addressee is written upon the outer surface of the same as shown at 13 or other communication is at the same time written lor imprinted upon the surface of the sheet below the flap.v The writing on the flap is by reason of the carbonization of its inner surface, reproduced on the sheet at the head of the matter written thereon as illustrated at le, Fig. l, and after the flap has been returned to its originalposition the article is ready to be folded and sealed for its transmission by mail or other method of transportation. To fold the letter for the lastqmentioned purpose the wings 5 are folded along the line 3 upon the intermediate body portion as shown in Fig. 3, after which the sheet is doubled as shown in Fig. 4

statement ofthe account t @long e transverse folding line Wliicli in i'ig. l. and 3 is indicated by tlie broken line The flap is now again folded along tlie Vline-7 but this time upon the outer surface of tlie folded slieet to which it is subsequently secured by moistening the adhesive applied along its outer edge, and us final stepin the process of sealing the missive,y

the ears -S are turned around the edges of the folded article and secured upon the benl: thereof by nioistening the adhesive coating applied :it their inner surfaces. The article thus being folded and sealed es illustrated in Figs. o and 6 is now ready for delivery,

einitted, and the form shown in Fig. 8 differs 'from the others in that the Writing sheet 2 isniade of larger size and. is tlius better adapted for Writing letters or printing cireulers. In this forni the sheet is after the wings lieve been folded thereon along tlie longitudinal linesp, twice folded along the trensverse lines l@ 'which divide tlie sheet in three parts of equal Width.

Having thus described our invention what We claim and desire to secure by LetterslDatent is: l

As anew article of manufacture, e. combined Writing slieet and envelop comprising a sheet and e sealing flap which when folded upon the sheet along'fiv determinate line coincident with tl'ie upper edge of the saine, covers tlie upper portion of tlie inner or Writing surface of the sheet and which when folded along the said line after the sheet is folded upon itself along a determinate line,

engages the outer surface of the saine, the

seid slieet being capable of being folded along a. transverse line and tlie said .flap

baring means forfits attachment to the said v outerA surface of the sheet,l and, upon its inner Surface, a coating of transfer material for the production of an impression of inat- `ter Written upon its outer surface, upon the upper portion of the inner surface of the sheet, which it covers when it is folded along its seid folding line, prior to the folding of @the slieet upon itself.

ln testimony Wlieieof We'lmve affixed our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR W. Weiser( enit n. KNoWLroN.

Witnesses for lVright:

R. WHEN, ANNA RUBiN. Witnesses for Knowlton: G. J. ROLLANDET,

L. RHoADns. 

